AIMS Campaigns Team comment on the Ockenden Report and next steps
As long standing campaigners for improvements in the maternity services, AIMS deeply regrets the long series of failings that have led to the Ockenden… Read more…
AIMS has campaigned for improvements to the maternity services in the UK since 1960. We run national campaigns, support local people with their campaigns and support individual women, birthing people and families via our helpline. AIMS responds to multiple NICE guideline consultations, and has been instrumental in changing both guidance and language to better support women and babies through their maternity journey.
AIMS works towards better births for all by campaigning and information sharing, protecting human rights in childbirth and helping women to know their rights, whatever birth they want, and wherever they want it.
As long standing campaigners for improvements in the maternity services, AIMS deeply regrets the long series of failings that have led to the Ockenden… Read more…
10am on Wednesday March 30, 2022: the final Ockenden Report is published. 12.45pm the same day, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Saj… Read more…
In the Stakeholder Council we have a common purpose that focuses on the need for maternity transformation. We do not need to be convinced. Because we… Read more…
AIMS is pleased to announce the publication of the first of our new position papers. Over the years, AIMS has developed a reputation for taking a posi… Read more…
Times are incredibly tough across the maternity services in the UK at the moment. AIMS would like to take this opportunity to thank every single membe… Read more…
The draft document can be found here General comments: The comments form is online only and cannot be downloaded. This makes it very difficult for con… Read more…
AIMS is pleased that the majority of our 65 comments have resulted in positive changes in the final NICE Guideline for Inducing Labour which were publ… Read more…
AIMS recognises that the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic is placing an extraordinary burden on the NHS and its staff. We pay tribute to all staff, who we… Read more…
AIMS supports the Government's ongoing commitment to the implementation of relational care - the Continuity of Carer model of care - in the maternity… Read more…
As part of its non-inquiry work, the Health and Social Care Select Committee have established a panel to conduct an evaluation of the Government's com… Read more…
AIMS and our partners in the But Not Maternity Alliance have issued a press release on the nationwide status of maternity restrictions highlighting th… Read more…
AIMS has responded to the call for evidence to inform the Government’s Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy 2021 to 2024 Violence Against… Read more…
AIMS and our partners in the But Not Maternity Alliance and National Maternity Voices organised a webinar for MVP/MSLC representatives. The purpose wa… Read more…
AIMS has submitted comments on the draft NICE Guideline for Antenatal care for uncomplicated pregnancies. You can read our comments here The details o… Read more…
By the AIMS Campaigns Team Last month - on February 22 to be precise - AIMS marked the fifth anniversary of the publication of Better Births. Judging… Read more…
AIMS has written this week to Jeremy Hunt MP, in his role as chair of the Health and Social Care Select Committee, as a response to the current discus… Read more…
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) recently launched a public consultation on the draft of a new leaflet which they plan to… Read more…
In many parts of the country, there is now momentum building in favour of the implementation of a relational model of maternity care. This is somethin… Read more…
AIMS, supported by a coalition of campaigning organisations (Birthrights, The BirthBliss Academy, The Birth Trauma Association, The Fatherhood Institu… Read more…
AIMS, as part of a coalition of campaigning organisations including Birthrights, the BirthBliss Academy, the Fatherhood Institute, Make Birth Better a… Read more…
AIMS has submitted comments on the draft NICE Shared decision making Guideline. You can read our comments here The details of the consultation on the… Read more…
AIMS welcomes the new ' Framework to assist NHS trusts to reintroduce access for partners, visitors and other supporters of pregnant women in English… Read more…
AIMS has submitted comments on the draft update of the NICE Neonatal Infection Guideline. You can read our comments here . The details of the draft gu… Read more…
AIMS has had many enquiries about how to find out about, and seek to influence, local service changes during this period. Here we have included severa… Read more…
AIMS has submitted comments on the draft update of the NICE Caesarean Section Guideline You can read our comments here The details of the draft and up… Read more…